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Church of San Juan Bautista de Caudiel

Caudiel, El Alto Palancia, Castellón

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Church of San Juan Bautista de Caudiel

Monument · Caudiel, El Alto Palancia, Castellón

The parish church of Caudiel (Castellón), housed in the church of the former convent of the Augustinians, founded in 1616 by Pedro Miralles, where studies in philosophy and art were once taught. After the disentailment, the conventual building passed to municipal uses, and the church, with its chapel and camarín, was made a parish church in 1866, when the dome of the former parish church collapsed. It is a broad nave in the form of a Latin cross, in Baroque style, with interconnected cloister chapels and a hemispherical dome; the altarpiece, heavily ornamented and gilded, is partly the work of the Manchego painter Gaspar de la Huerta. The Virgin's camarín holds the small image of Our Lady of the Lost Child, or Our Lady of the Tusk, carved from an elephant tusk in the 15th century.

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